[377] The fact of any single member taking objection to a motion is sufficient to include it among "opposed" business, and in an assembly of partisans it would be too much to expect that any private member's Bill should avoid giving grounds of objection to at least one opponent.
[378] May, p. 430.
[379] In 1641, during the Long Parliament, Hyde was appointed Chairman of Committees, so as to get him out of the way, that he might not obstruct business by too much speaking. Parry's "Parliaments of England," p. 354.
[380] Lytton's "Life of Palmerston," vol. i. p. 115.
[381] Pellew's "Life of Sidmouth," vol. i. p. 76.
[382] The right of "counting out" the House was not exercised until 1729. On May 19, 1876, the Commons failed to "make the House" for the first time since April 4, 1865. See Irving's "Annals of Our Time," vol. ii. p. 197.
[383] Pearson's "Political Dictionary," pp. 23-4.
[384] "The Manner of Holding Parliaments Prior to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth." "Somers Tract," p. 12.
[385] "Diurnall Occurrences," p. 8.
[386] In 1909, during the temporary absence of the Chaplain, the Speaker read prayers himself.